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It was late at night, there wasnt any burning.There wasn't by any chance an amount of inscence in the air at that Church? I felt like I was going to pass out a few times at my own Church because of the type of inscence they used.
No, he was reading to himself, not aloud.Besides that, I don't object to what others have said about a spirit uprising. Am I correct in assuming this occured when the pastor began reading aloud from the bible?
Alecto said:It was late at night, there wasnt any burning.
No, he was reading to himself, not aloud.
Even so, it shouldnt have effected me, Im not allergic to incense and I burn it on a regular basis with no ill effectsStill there can be some in the air. Esspecially if you get migranes like I do it can still have an effect on you.
Doubtful, he was about 50 feet away from us when we first entered and he never really came close enough to see my neckwear and my sweatshirt was covering my belt buckle.Praying maybe. For you? If you wore your pentegram in a way that he could see it, it would've been natural for him to pray for you.
Its hard to serve when the master does nothing for you. I put my faith and trust in God that if I respected him, worshiped him, that I would be allright. I did and...it didnt work.You say that you believed in a Christian God and he "let you down." I've got to wonder where your head was at in the first place. Being a Christian is about being a servant. Christians are servants to God, not the other way around.
A series of unfortuneate events. Most of which Im not willing to discuss publicly. I turned away from Christianity after I was convinced that people had got thier views of God as perfect and loving wrong. He is, in my mind, no different than any of us. I wandered around for a while, sort of spiritually lost. Then I found a website on Paganism, I became interested and found more websites, then I went and read books, and Ive never looked back sinceWhat exactly happened when you were a Christian that caused you to turn to paganism?
When I became involved in Paganism, I felt this...welcoming feeling, like it was where I was supposed to be, home I guess would be the best term. It was like I had been away from home for a long long time and was just comming back. It felt right and I durrived much comfort from it. The Gods have been my guides for about 4 years now. And I have grown far more in these years than I have in the rest of my life, for the better.I certainly understand what you mean about feeling like God let you down. I believed in Jesus as a young child, despite the fact that I had a very (and I mean, very) abusive childhood. I also turned away from God and became involved in the occult, and a lot of other things (drugs, alcohol) because I was in a lot of pain.
Aww shucks.......Alecto said:Marut, how old are you really, because you certainly dont come off like any 15 year old Ive ever metVery wise, If I may say so.
A wise man sees both sides of an issue: A wiser man accepts both.Alecto said:Just as Christianity has been a positive force in your life, so has been Paganism in mine.
Alecto said:Just as Christianity has been a positive force in your life, so has been Paganism in mine.
Alecto said:Ok, Im having a few friends over. The parents are gone so its just a couple of us hanging out. One of my good friends, JJ, has been having a few home life problems. When she came over, she was quiet and reserved. A little un-usual but nothing to call 911 over. As the night went on, she seemed to get a little more upset.
I decided to walk and talk, my favorite flavor of therapy for people I care about. They recently finished a church just a few blocks down the street so I decided to pick that as a place to walk with JJ. JJ is religious, but she doesnt make it a focus of her life, shes a very laid back Christian but she feels very comfortable in chuch which was one of the reasons I decided on the church as a place to go (And they have a REALLY cool stained glass window of the four horsemen)
We were walking and talking like usual, we got to the church and went inside. The pastor asked us if we needed anything, I said no we just came for a place to talk. He nodded and went up to the front of the church where he had a huge bible on a podium facing the benches. We sat down in the back and kept talking as he started to read.
After a couple minnutes, I started to feel a little...uncomfortable. Kind of like how you feel when your driving and you can feel someone watching you from annother car. A few more minnutes went by and the feeling grew more and more noticeable. Like when your walking home at night and you know someone is following you. It was like a crushing prescense that I couldnt explain, but it was...cold, like ice.
It started to feel like someone was pouring sand onto my chest, just this crushing feeling. My skin started to feel cold. Whats strange is I didnt feel affraid, no fear what so ever. Youd think if you felt like that youd be affraid, but I wasnt affraid, it was more like frustration and an urge to fight back.
I started to feel dizzy. At that point I jumped up and ran outside, I couldnt shake it. Thats when I started to feel real anger, defensive anger. The anger that wells up inside you when someone wrongs you. I did the next best thing, or combination thereof, that I could think of. I took off my promise ring and the pentacle around my neck, I held them both in my hands and just focused on those two objects.
After maybe a minnute or two, the wierd feeling and the anger faded slowly. I opened my eyes and JJ was standing there with the pastor looking like they had seen blood gushing out of my eyes. I shook it off, told them both I was ok.
I walked JJ back home and....found David and Yaz trying to settle a bet about who could eat the most raw horseradishes before throwing up. (I have wierd friends)
Im not quite sure what to do or how to react. Ive done a cleansing and some shielding and I dont feel ill-at ease or nervous. Drained I guess is the best term.
JJ thought it might have been low blood sugar or just being very cold. I...dunno about that, I put away about 4 slices of pizza about an hour before I left and I had a sweatshirt and jeans on.
What do you think?
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